EA book

The book answers a few of the common questions related to Enterprise Architecture (EA). What is the issue? What is EA? Why should an organization consider EA? What are the benefits and how to build a business case.

It continues with how to build the Enterprise Architecture and document it. The book comes with examples of an one page generic business architecture in alignment to the technology and people architectures.

An innovative EA Framework and the associated metamodel is introduced that shows how the key artefacts and their components fit in the EA. The framework looks like a content page showing how the components of the Enterprise Architecture fit in the whole without actually describing them. 

Enterprise Reference Maps for the business process, applications and infrastructure layers are then proposed. It presents IT application and Information architectures - and templates -, integrated to the EA, and a design example.

The approach is holistic in that takes into consideration the business (value chains, streams, business functions...), the technology (not only IT), and the people organization all linked together.

The book then identifies an EA development process and summarises best practices, architecture patterns and principles, the integration to the mundane solution architectures to the EA and delivery checklists. It discusses roadblocks, politics, governance, design method and a maturity framework and it illustrates how to measure the value delivered; enumerates criteria for the selection of an Enterprise Architect. 

The book also introduces SOA and the Cloud in their relationship to EA.

At the end of every chapter  it comes with review questions to facilitate study.

The book is available at:

Trafford: http://www.trafford.com/Bookstore/BookDetail.aspx?BookId=SKU-000152541

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Enterprise-Architecture-Development-Framework-Practices/dp/1412086655

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Book reviews:

IASA 3rd edition: http://www.iasahome.org/web/home/blogs/-/blogs/review---an-enterprise-architecture-framework-3rd-edition

IASA 2nd edition: http://www.iasahome.org/web/home/blogs/-/blogs/review---an-enterprise-architecture-development-framework

BPTrends: http://www.bptrends.com/publicationfiles/03-08-BR-Ent-Arch-Grigoriu.pdf

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The Problem: today's unresponding “legacy” Enterprise in a world of increasingly increasing complexity, amount of information, rate of change and competition. 

The Solution: the Enterprise Architecture (EA) offering streamlining, alignment, blueprinting, strategic planning, and agility through SOA, the target state of the Enterprise.

    The book describes: 

• • drivers, benefits and Business Case for an EA evaluating financial Payback and NPV

  • the Return on Enterprise Architecture (RoEA) 

        RoEA =       Revenuearch/Costsarch 

                        Revenuenoarch/Costsnoarch 

• • a Single Page Enterprise Architecture, a synoptic view of the Enterprise operation

  • Enterprise reference maps, covering business and technology architecture templates

  • alignment of your on-going solutions architecture projects to the Enterprise Architecture

  • a navigable EA framework and its metamodel describing the Value Chains, Business & Operating Models, Functions and Flows resourced by Organization and Technology layers

  • classification of and mapping to other EA frameworks: Zachman, TOGAF, DoDAF…

  • a unifying view of EA, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Value Chains, Business Models, Processes (BPM) and IT Architecture, patching the divide between the Business and IT

  • a best practices process for building the EA and SOA,, an EA development exercise, and how to use the framework for ITIL, M&A, Outsourcing, Start-ups…

  • EA patterns, inhibitors, maturity models, politics & sell

  • a Strategy specification process and alignment to business activities, organization and technology. 

“There are a few books that take a broad perspective, but most focus on creating an IT architecture. An Enterprise Architecture Development Framework, by Adrian Grigoriu, is a pleasant exception. Grigoriu takes a very comprehensive view of things and works to show how everything can be integrated within a broadly conceived view of things”. 

Paul Harmon, the Executive Editor of Business Process Trends (www.bptrends.com).